Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-06

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thu kitciIcn-Their Self Reliance
q r~owins--The Girls of the Future.
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BOSTON, Dec, 10,-Tiiere is said to be a
:, pressing demand in Boston, as elsewhere. for
good girls" to work ut domestic service in
families. Such may get from SO to 81 per
week, board included. Most American girls
do not like to work in families. They like
better to enter stores as clerks. They would
rather Wait on the mistress behind tbs
counter at less wages than at her house.
There is still a stain attached to 4going out as
help" The American girl is told that all
honest labor is honorable, and that she can
elevate and dignity her calling as hired
assistant in the family. But she does not
take the idea. It's too much to expect Of
her. The theory is good, and true. But the
general practice in society does not point
that way. Besides, good mistresses and house.
Keepers are as scarce as "good girls.n The
mistress may have her moods, her lenses aud
tempers as well as the girl. Human irnper-
lection dwells in the parlor as well as attic.
The good girl is expected to @put upn with
the mistress tout of sortsn spells. The good
mistress cannot, of course, ''put upn with the
girls changes of temperature and variations
OF compass, Ladies in Boston speak depre-
catingly OF the tendency of girls to seek the
hl-paid positions in shops and stores rather
than accept better paid positions In families,
where they could have q 4good home.n But
the girl has also her idea as to e agood hone.p
1t may differ from that of the mistress. The
glrl, Tor instance, may want to go out every
night, when her days work is done. The.
mistress may be able SO to do. We are all
lmbued with a terribly troublesome, turbu-
lent desire for freedom. 1t extends to maid.
master and mistress. In the girls estimate.
among other things a good home implies
some freedom, recreation and change. If
you are "free, white and 20 or Pip do Won
want your going out to see your chums lin
tied to one evening q weeka / have heard
ladies blazing away at the folly and extraya-
gance OF girls OF lowly estate a few hours
after losing an amount equal to q girls six
months wages in stock gambling. Howhard
1t is for any of us to find that Jewel consist
ency, ana wear it consistently after we have
found it.
The female stage ~supernumerary gets IS
per week. Out of this she must in part
furnish her costume. For time and labor pre-
viously expended, at rehearsals before tho
play is put on, she gets nothing. Preparatory
to a spectacular piece / have seen eighty
supernunheraries 'rehearsingo for two weeks
from . IN the evening till 2 in the morning.
Next morning rehearsals were called for at 10
and might last till Q in the afternoon. Re,
hearsal for the supernumerary means threa
hours OF waiting to one of doing. She NAV
also have the opportunity OF realizing tho
temper of an irritable stage manager without
being his wife. Swearing at the girls is No
common on the stages of some theaters as
swearing at the boys on the decks of some
merchantmen. All stage managers, how
ever, are not alike. Some are swine ard
some are gentlemen. TIL majority of girls
VINO g III tie stage III this humble csssc;ty
never make up their minds to do ANYTHING
They have no special aim save to get on tue
stage and drift. Consequently, as in the
other walks OF life, they drift. A purpose in
anyhfeis what ~thebulning glass is toHght. 1t
brings ones strength to a focus and sets at
least sonapart of the world on fire. No aim
less life ever sets the world on fire. When a
; girl on the stage begins to do anything well.
she begins to manage ths manager. She
waits less ard dTudges less, and If she be wise
and her pretty little head doesn't run away
with her tas in two-thirds of these cases Il
, does she may have an assured position and 4
fair salary. But there are. all sorts of slips
'twixt cup and lip.
, The decorative art line seems pretty full
here. In ali manner of show windows arc
. seen specimens Of painting from female
/ hands. There are paintings on plaques, on
, shells, on academic board framed and I'm.
framed. These are left on sale, and often
/ are not sold. There are 30 many hero who
! spaint" as to give rise to the expression,
Everybody paints Now everybody does
: not paint. But more do paint than ever
painted before. Rarely do I find here a
private family but some member thereof
. apaints.n
One trouble is there is too muck paint and
too little push. There is more room here for
: this artistic talent could it be applied to other
Z fields. Pew men are now needed who could
I give suggestions to people in ths matter OF
: furnishing and decorating houses. There Is
still left in Boston an immature element sud.
Z denly risen to wealth and having more money
2 than taste. These need artistic women to set
y their house in order, and such women couid
find a profitable calling here, were she first to
resolve in mind that she would never ceaae
pushing until she did find it. 9-.r
l There are men here who would fattea.out
a Immediately were they to lose the wives they
bully and think the weaker vessels. They
/, are. as dependent on them as is yoursbjgp brute
. of a boy, WHO thinks he runs the universe,
1 while, were not his fond and foolish mother
D looking out for his clothes and his feed. hs
> would be as ragged as any tramp and Is
g starved as the guest. at some New England
I country hotels after supper.
= What is the outcome of the surplus woman
herea With all the pain and priyation &C.
: colnpanying the condition of affairs there Is
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